What is it about that song? It’s not as if Australian singer-songwriter Gotye (pronounced just like “Gauthier”) hadn’t written catchy melodies before: Learnalilgivinanlovin, Hearts a Mess and Eyes Wide Open, for example, made an instant bid to get under your skin and in your mind, but only the last-mentioned squeezed into the Top 100 in the U.S. — barely.

Montreal showed love for its own Rufus Wainwright when he presided over the jazz festival’s opening-night blowout for 100,000 last week, but if Liza Minnelli had been in town, she might have found somewhere else to go.

There was one last thing Billy Bragg wanted to get straight in the final moments of a recent telephone interview. We were chatting about what the focus of his solo concert Tuesday night at Metropolis might be.

At a press conference, Bellucci said the reason she’s here shooting Ville-Marie is simple. She was blown away by Édoin’s screenplay and loved the role he was proposing for her. She was even more sold on coming here to work with Édoin after she watched Marécages.